Associations to the word «Hansard»

Wiktionary

HANSARD, noun. The official report of discussions in the British and some Commonwealth parliaments.
HANSARD, noun. (historical) A merchant of one of the Hanse towns.

Dictionary definition

HANSARD, noun. The official published verbatim report of the proceedings of a parliamentary body; originally of the British Parliament; "the Canadian Hansard is published in both English and French".

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne